STONE AGE PEOPLE STILL EXIST!

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This is NOT a joke. Stone age, neo lithic people really do still survive today in isolation in 2009.This can be veriified by looking it up on google. Threre is a tribe of stone age era people that to this day still survive on a very isolated island off the coast of India. It's called NORTH SENTINEL ISLAND. They are very hostle, and are the only people on the island. They come from and era of people 60,000 years ago. Everyone stays away from them and the island because trespassers are brutally killed.These tribe members are shooting arrows at a helicopter.The people are called "Sentinelese" by modern people. We know nothing of how they live, beliefs, social order, or language. They seem to have a language, (yet nobody knows what it is) men and women don't wear clothes or cover thier genitals, however some men wear a belt like item on their waist to carry items. They have not discovered how to make fire.The reason that they still survive in 2009 is that they are left alone as they are extremely hostle to anyone that arrives on the island. They have bows and arrows, and will kill anyone who sets foot on the island.They are small, under five feet tall.They are not to be confused with the Jarawa tribe that recently came out of the jungles to meet modern people. Read on how they are agressive, and shoot people with arrows and kill people.North Sentinel Island is not located in one of those parts of the world that are famous for having been "discovered" - the Caribbean, say, or the South Pacific. The Andaman Islands, though rarely visited until the nineteenth century, have been known to Western civilization for much longer. Here are some things that have happened.READ ALL OF IT.In 1867, toward the end of the summer monsoon season, an Indian merchantman, the Nineveh, was wrecked on the reef off North Sentinel. Eighty-six passengers and twenty crewmen got safely to the beach in the ship's boat. On the morning of the third day, as these survivors sat down to a makeshift breakfast, they were suddenly attacked. "The savages were perfectly naked, with short hair and red painted noses, and were opening their mouth and making sounds like pa on ough; their arrows appeared to be tipped with iron," the Nineveh's captain later reported. (The Sentinelese had probably scavenged the metal from flotsam on the beach, as they apparently still do today.) He had fled at the first shower of arrows and escaped in the ship's boat, to be picked up several days later by a brig bound for Moulmein.The Andaman Islands were now officially part of the British Empire - they'd been settled as a penal colony - so a Royal Navy rescue party was dis-patched by steamer to the site of the wreck. It arrived to find that the Nineveh's passengers had managed to fend off their attackers with sticks and stones, and the savages had not been seen since.In 1896, a Hindu convict escaped on a makeshift raft from the main penal settlement on Great Andaman Island. He drifted across thirty miles or so of open ocean and landed on the beach of North Sentinel. A search party found his body there some days later, pierced in several places by arrows and with its throat cut. No natives were sighted. After this, the island was left alone for nearly a century.In the spring of 1974, North Sentinel was visited by a film crew that was shooting a documentary titled Man in Search of Man, along with a few anthropologists, some armed policemen, and a photographer for National Geographic. In the words of one of the scientists, their plan was to "win the natives' friendship by friendly gestures and plenty of gifts." As the team's motorized dinghy made its way through the reefs toward shore, some natives emerged from the woods. The anthropologists made friendly gestures. The Sentinelese responded with a hail of arrows. The dinghy proceeded to a landing-spot out of arrow range, where the policemen, dressed in padded armor, disembarked and laid gifts on the sand: a miniature plastic automobile, some coconuts, a tethered live pig, a child's doll, and some aluminum cookware. Then they returned to the dinghy and waited to observe the natives' reaction to the gifts. The natives' reaction was to fire more arrows, one of which hit the film director in the left thigh. The man who had shot the film director was observed laughing proudly and walking toward the shade of a tree, where he sat down. Other natives were observed spearing the pig and the doll and burying them in the sand. They did, however, take the cookware and the coconuts with evident delight.They are pretty much a global secret, as India has decided to just leave them alone, as they have nothing to gain from trying to civilize them. Nobody to this day ever visits the island.

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Athough the island is likely to have suffered seriously from the effects of the December 2004 tsunami, the survival of the Sentinelese was confirmed when, some days after the event, an Indian government helicopter observed several of them, who shot arrows at the hovering aircraft to repel it.

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Stone Age tribe kills fishermen who strayed on to island By Peter Foster in New DelhiPublished: 12:01AM GMT 08 Feb 2006One of the world's last Stone Age tribes has murdered two fishermen whose boat drifted on to a desert island in the Indian Ocean.The Sentinelese, thought to number between 50 and 200, have rebuffed all contact with the modern world, firing a shower of arrows at anyone who comes within range.Shooting arrows at a helicopter. Related ArticlesStone Age tribes survive They are believed to be the last pre-Neolithic tribe in the world to remain isolated and appear to have survived the 2004 Asian tsunami.The two men killed, Sunder Raj, 48, and Pandit Tiwari, 52, were fishing illegally for mud crabs off North Sentinel Island, a speck of land in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands archipelago.Fellow fishermen said they dropped anchor for the night on Jan 25 but fell into a deep sleep, probably helped by large amounts of alcohol. During the night their anchor, a rock tied to a rope, failed to hold their open-topped boat against the currents and they drifted towards the island."As day broke, fellow fishermen say they tried to shout at the men and warn them they were in danger," said Samir Acharya, the head of the Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology, an environmental organisation. "However they did not respond - they were probably drunk - and the boat drifted into the shallows where they were attacked and killed."After the fishermen's families raised the alarm, the Indian coastguard tried to recover the bodies using a helicopter but was met by the customary hail of arrows.Photographs shot from the helicopter show the near-naked tribesmen rushing to fire. But the downdraught from its rotors exposed the two fisherman buried in shallow graves and not roasted and eaten, as local rumour suggested.Mr Acharya said the erroneous belief in the tribe's cannibalism grew from the practice of another tribe, the Onge, who would cut up and burn their dead to avoid them returning as evil spirits."People saw the flesh cooking on the fire and thought they must be cannibals but this incident clearly contradicts that belief," he said.Attempts to recover the bodies of the two men have been suspended, although the Andaman Islands police chief, Dharmendra Kumar, said an operation might be mounted later. "Right now, there will be casualties on both sides," he said from Port Blair. "The tribesmen are out in large numbers. We shall let things cool down and once these tribals move to the island's other end we will sneak in and bring back the bodies."Environmental groups urged the authorities to leave the bodies and respect the three-mile exclusion zone thrown around the island. In the 1980s and early 1990s many Sentinelese were killed in skirmishes with armed salvage operators who visited the island after a shipwreck. Since then the tribesmen have remained virtually undisturbed.DNA analysis of another tribe, the Jarawa, whose members made first contact with the outside world in 1997, suggest that the tribesmen migrated from Africa around 60,000 years ago. However, the experience of the Jarawa since their emergence - sexual exploitation, alcoholism and a measles epidemic - has encouraged efforts to protect the Sentinelese from a similar fate.

[timm525]

Wow! They take their island seriously!Of course arrows against machine guns always fails.

[COOPER&BURNETT]

Wow! They take their island seriously!Of course arrows against machine guns always fails.

Nobody wants to hurt the last surviving, untouched neo lithic stone age people that exists on earth.

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[timm525]

It said they havn't discovered how to make fire in one sentence and then they talked about cooking people. :confused:

[COOPER&BURNETT]

It said they havn't discovered how to make fire in one sentence and then they talked about cooking people. :confused:

You didn't read it right.That was rumor that was proven to NOT be true. Below is what the article said......Photographs shot from the helicopter show the near-naked tribesmen rushing to fire. But the downdraught from its rotors exposed the two fisherman buried in shallow graves and not roasted and eaten, as local rumour suggested.Mr Acharya said the erroneous belief in the tribe's cannibalism grew from the practice of another tribe, the Onge, who would cut up and burn their dead to avoid them returning as evil spirits.

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For Google Earth explorers, start out at about 5000 kilometers and center your screen at 11° 33’N, 92° 14’ E. Gazing down at the Bay of Bengal between India and Southeast Asia, you’ll see the Andaman Islands, an Indian territory not far from some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. For thousands of years, however, mariners studiously avoided this archipelago, noted for the isolation and inhospitality of its inhabitants (their rule of thumb was to kill all interlopers). In the mid-1800s, Britain (wouldn’t you know it?) subdued the large islands in the chain, mostly to build a massive prison for its recalcitrant Indian subjects. With outsiders came disease, leading to the gradually disappearance of most Andamanese hunter-gatherer tribes.One island, however, escaped the fate of its neighbors: North Sentinel. Google Earthers should zoom down to about 10 kilometers, where the island fills the screen. Nothing is visible except trees and coral reefs. But the lack of human indicators is misleading. North Sentinel Island is inhabited, but by how may people is anyone’s guess. We know next to nothing about their language or culture. In the late 20th century, a few Indian anthropologists tried to make contact, but failed.Some observers feared that the December 2004 tsunami might have wiped out the North Sentinelese. But Anthropologists were relieved, in a rather twisted manner, to learn that when a small Indian fishing boat veered to close to the island in 2006, its crew was given a typical Sentinelese reception (they were killed and buried in shallow graves). When a helicopter came to investigate the crime, local archers bravely drove it away with a volley of arrows.

[timm525]

Nobody wants to hurt the last surviving' date=' untouched neo lithic stone age people that exists on earth.[/quote']I'll bet the families of the fisher men do.

[COOPER&BURNETT]

I'll bet the families of the fisher men do.

NOT that it matters, but they were fishing illegally, and were drunk. They went to the wrong island for sure.The families most likely were shocked, but these people are not from our time. They have lived on the island for 60 thousand years, and have thier own rules and laws.

[COOPER&BURNETT]

Experts say that a plane flying over would not make sense to the sentinelese. They most likely would think that this is some large bird, god, or spirit.

[maynard]

Its no wonder the Geico Cavemen can't get any respect!

[timm525]

The movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy comes to mind here.

[COOPER&BURNETT]

The movie' date=' The Gods Must Be Crazy comes to mind here.[/quote']That was a great movie!

[Tony D.]

I hope the poor fishermen didn't drop a cigarette lighter on the island! First they'll discover fire............next, nuclear weapons of mass distruction!

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[timm525]

I wonder if they are shooting at Google Earth?

[COOPER&BURNETT]

They are shooting at helicopters and airplanes.

[Papa Legba]

You know you're primitive when you're trying to take down a Helecopter with a bow and arrow. Then again I guess they wouldn't have anything like a Bren Ten automatic!

[Tony D.]

The sad part is they might get lucky & take out the pilot:Neanderthal's - 1Modern Man - 0

[Richie Rich]

I wonder if they are shooting at Google Earth?

Could be. They were not happy when the "Google Street View" photography van drove past, just when they were having "run around the field naked" time (it's a special time for them).